Common core is not a curriculum, only a set of standrds with no specific way to teach them...
Au contraire, the common core does contain some specifics (and a concern is that this may grow in the future as CCSS is still being developed). While there are indeed lists of standards, there are also tasks and books and their recommended placement by grade level / band.
Can you provide a quote or specific link on this? I don't recall seeing any required curriculum when I read through the common core standards.
I've backtracked through my link list and see that this where I first began to understand Common Core as having a specific curriculum component... there is a "placement" of certain academic content, for example "Grapes of Wrath", as shown at CCSS links including
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy and in the Appendices linked from that page.
What I see is "Grapes of Wrath" in this section
"Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Range of Student Reading 6-12"
But, we have gone overlong in sidetracking from JenT's original question regarding "Words Their Way."
